Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-17
NO. 81.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

! bismarck, by advice OF his phySc-
! ian, now takes daily horseback rides.
1t is said that 12G clergymen sailed
from New York for Europe in q single
| day, recently.
"A license to practice law has been
issued to David Royston, c0lored, at
Ashland, Miss.
The Sacramento Chief Of Police
was fined lately fOT giving a saucy
answer to lawyer.
Alliance, New Jersey, has a Jew
I ish colony that deyotes great atten-
/ tion TO berry culture.
The Government is said to own
SO, ,OOO,o0O worth of property uDoz
! which no Insurance is carried.
/ "A piOus family in New York L
/ said to have converted a parrot froLs
profanity and taught it prayer.
( An American eagle measuring
seven feet four inches from tip to tis
has been shot at West Newton, Pa
"A Florida woman has made a bed
quilt containing 600 pieces, each less
/ than the size Of an average thumb-nau.
Two lions died from the efcts at
| the heat lately, while in their cages,
; travelling with a menageTie IN Corn
/ wall.
in addition to the telephone lines
now in operation between Paris, Iavre
/ and Brussels, third one with Amster-
dam IS spoken Of.
! Boston, where about 10000
quarts of milk ar We daily, IS expect
ing heI milk business to be conducted
by monopoly Hereafter.
The other day. for the first time
Of q
/ New Jersey, it is said, a cJIored man
served on cOUOler's jury.
An eel has been captured in Geor-
. gla, measuring five feet, six inches IA
length, nine Inches in circumference.
and weighing SIX and a half pounds.
7 -Colored people in some parts Of
tie South have been somewhat extern
slyely taken in by a white man. v.he
goes about making StIsCns or them az
81 per head.
Coffee Rice is the name OF gen
! tleman who has just been appointed
! Director Of one OF the agricultural
districts OF California 10y the Governor
OF that State.
3 The Supreme Court Of Minnesota
has discharged a prisoner who was con
Ylcted by iury partly composed OF
cannot legally act IS Jurors.
"A young wcman in Fonda. New
York, IS said to have gone on HE
coughing for three months past, except
when under the influence of ODiates.
until she IS now q mere wreck.
Georgia, whose curIosIt!es have
Deen quiescent lately, starts q revival
with story Of dog in Lewis county
whose hair turned white in ?, single
night, through sorrow and grief.
"A party OF Mormon missionaries.
who had been making numerous con-
Verts in Augusta, Georgia. and viciR-
lty, have been driven out of the dis
trlct 10y regulators" or that place.
"A student OF Vanderbilt Univer-
slty, Tennessee, is reported to have
beaten the world S record II high kick
ing, having succeeded IN hitting 2
mark at the height Of . feet 3 inches.
"A brass band, whose fourteen
members are all lewsbOys, exists in
New Orleans, and its services are in
great demand. 1t IS said to be the
only newsbOys' band in the United
States.
The "Oldest Mason" in Massachu-
setts has passed away. lie was Colds
bury Pond, who died at Franklin re-
Gently, after having been { member OF
the Masonic Order for sixty seven
year.
"A mother and daughter, who had
not seen each other for eighteen yeaIs,
/ have ;ust had sad reunion IN a house
OF correction at Milwaukee. They ex-
press determination to start life anew
together.
"A sufferer from paralysis OF the
throat, in MedOE, Tennessee, is SAID TO
have taken no food, drink or nourish-
ment Of any kind since the middle OF
March, but is now so feeble that he
must soon die.
An ice man in New York is said
. to have answered, when asked TO ex-
plain what he meant by saying that It
would be better for the public II ths
ice men had better wages: Weigh
your own ice and see. >
While eating peanuts. some days
ago. little daughter OF Mlddletown.
(N. y policeman drew a piece Of
kernel into her throat with her
breath, causing a swelling of the bron-
chlal tubes that resulted IL her death.
-Melchoir Werner, of Dubuque,
Iowa, who is now in his 9Jih year. and
who wos with Napoleon In the Water
! loo, LeiPsic and Russian campaigns, is
among those recently awarded q per-
sion under the Mexican Pension act.
"A bronze statue of PdlIa5 PrOmu-
chos has been found at Athens about
forty feet below the surface. TIE
work has been pronounced by the
archaeOlOgists residing at Athens 10
belong to the period Immediately pre-
ceding the Persian war, and to be the
! best example Of its kind yes found. II
! is about eight inches in height
i. i. Dodge. OF Am4ersJ, 4 cousin
of the late President Pierce, has pre-
sented to the New Hampshire Histor-
lcal Society, red coat VOra by y
| trooper IN the days when New Hamp-
| shire was a province. 1t has been kept
| for years in a large homemade linen
sheet, which Is almost as much of a
curiosity as the coat itself. The coat
is excellently preserved.
AT the University Of ETlangen, n
! ffty-fve-year-old student. after five
! terms has obtained the diploma of DR..
OF Medicine and Surgery. He had
formerly been postmaster, and served
as captain in the FrancO-Prussian
! War
"A deaf mute was before 4 Peters
burg, Virginia, court the other day on
the charge of burglary, ami the indict-
ment was gravely read TO him by the
clerk. Under Instructions from the
/ Court the Jury returned a verdict OF
not guilty.
Since the discovery of gold in Vic
torla, Australia, in 1851, the produc-
tion of that met Il, up to the end Of
1885, amounted to Sl.074, SO 72O. The
| production has diminished of late years
The same is true OF the New Zealand
mines.
"A sixteen-year-old girl was arrested
/ in Washington recently charged with
breaking into house, robbing it OF